Ross wrote:It needs to sell for <$1000 ,tranferable between bikes easily, ANT+ compatible, reliable and accurate and then it will be a best seller

Thats our aim indeed. However the transferable bit is difficult and limit our options of what we can do. All these different standards of BB also make it difficult.. (why so many?!!!), otherwise it would be good to measure the torque there...

A crank or hub based PM seems to be the industry standard. There are at least 3 manufacturers with pedal based PMs that are still in the development stage and have been for about a year and we still seem no closer to seeing them on the shelves or on a bike.

Ross wrote:A crank or hub based PM seems to be the industry standard. There are at least 3 manufacturers with pedal based PMs that are still in the development stage and have been for about a year and we still seem no closer to seeing them on the shelves or on a bike.

About 5 years.

Add in sales and marketing, distribution channels, warranty service and support, technical assistance, etc etc and getting the costs down and being commercially viable isn't an easy task.Making these things robust, accurate, reliable, easy to use is not an easy task either but then hardware is rarely the biggest cost. Then working out how to get them mass produced so that they don't have problems.

Then there is the issue of working with the head units, and resolving the limitation of ANT+ when dealing with power data.

Then demonstrating that the business is viable and will be here in a few years to back it up. Plenty of people got burned when a previous power meter manufacturers went under or did not end up supplying any product despite taking people's money for pre-order.

Pithy Power Proverb:"The most important consideration when choosing a power meter is the quality of the data it provides. Everything else is a feature."